Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower
Chapter 526: Into the Three-Branch Junction

Chapter 526: Chapter 526: Into the Three-Branch Junction

Bai Junjun’s eyes were greeted by a strange bridge, this bridge had four or five layers of eaves, each layer smaller than the one below, stacked upon each other in a fascinatingly bizarre fashion,

At each of the four corners of every layer hung wind chimes, which tinkled crisply as they swayed with the wind.

Ah Fu said that most of the buildings at the Three-Branch Junction were constructed like this.

They were built without using a single nail, yet they had withstood thousands of years of wind, frost, rain, and snow, standing firm and unmoved.

It was said that this was because each of the pillars housed a guardian spirit, and these spirits upheld the wood.

"The end of the Wind Rain Bridge is the gate of the Three-Branch Junction, but you must be careful not to touch the pillars, or you will be punished by the guardian spirits."

Bai Junjun and Li Wenli nodded obediently, with no intention of stirring trouble.

Whether the pillars had guardian spirits was unknown, but it sounded more like each pillar harbored Gu insects, and they could get infested if they weren’t careful.

They obediently followed the group to the gate, where the people, like Wu Nuan, were dressed in indigo robes with silver ornaments on their chests.

However, the workers here were all men, with only the female official seated in the hall responsible for checking the documents.

Clearly, on Witch Ancestor Mountain, women’s status was higher than men’s.

The leading woman checked the documents, then compared them one by one against a list.

Her gaze fell on the Seven-Person Team, confusion apparent in her eyes.

"I don’t understand why such young ones are accompanying the agent’s goods, and it’s their first time over, isn’t it?"

"Yes," Ah Fu and Ah Gui nodded. "They are the newest recruits being trained by Dongsheng Tavern, as you know, every summer and autumn is when Dongsheng Tavern vigorously trains newcomers, and our boss hopes to cultivate them into reliable hands for delivering Dongsheng Wine."

Ah Fu and Ah Gui seemed to be used to bringing newcomers and handled this sort of questioning with ease.

The person responsible for the checks didn’t say anything further and waved someone to take them away.

Before leaving, as if remembering something, she said, "Although they are young, they still need to be accommodated one person per room."

"Of course, we comply with the arrangements of the Three-Branch Junction."

"Hmm."

Seeing they were truly unremarkable, the leading woman finally closed her eyes and ignored them further.

Everyone followed the leader out of the checkpoint in silence.

Following the path forward, they soon came upon a massive circular structure similar to the earthen residences of the Hakka people from later centuries, featuring a sole entrance leading to rooms all around a large circle.

Some rooms were lit with lamps, while others were pitch dark, making it obvious which were occupied and which were not.

The guide brought them to their rooms and had them move in one by one, 16 people in 16 rooms; even so, the immense circular building still had many vacancies left.

For Bai Junjun, being alone wasn’t much of an issue,

On the other hand, Bai Lingyu and Bai Sasa looked utterly forlorn as if the sky had fallen, reluctant to face everything before them.

However, there was no helping it, they had already been forewarned by Ah Fu and Ah Gui en route, and now they could only grit their teeth and sleep on their own.

After traveling three days by horse carriage, they were all exhausted, and upon entering their rooms, they didn’t fuss but went straight to bed to sleep.

The room’s furnishings were quite simple, but there was a clean quilt on the bed, showing that the Three-Branch Junction took good care of merchants passing through, at least the sanitary conditions seemed much better than the station in An County.

Bai Junjun didn’t struggle either; she climbed into bed and lay down quietly. It was now past eleven at night, the perfect time to sleep.

That night, Bai Junjun didn’t plan on causing any trouble, so she was especially well-behaved.